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pibling

Syllables: pib·ling/ˈpɪblɪŋ/

pibling noun: used especially as a gender-neutral term: the sibling or sibling-in-law of one's parent; one’s uncle or aunt.

Noun

pibling (plural piblings)

  1. (rare) Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the sibling or sibling-in-law of one's parent; one’s uncle or aunt.
    • Are you someone's stepsibling, pibling, great grandfather, step father, mother, niece, aunt, brother, nibling, grandchild, grandmother, brother-in-law, great aunt, son, daughter, first cousin, or nephew? […] For his High Line commission, New York-based artist Darren Bader presents chess: relatives...2017 May 23, “High Line Art: Darren Bader: chess: relatives”, in e-flux, archived from the original on 23 May 2017
    • We measured a [representing assortative mating] repeatedly, comparing the correlations of piblings (parents' siblings; avuncular relatives) with those of piblings-in-law[…]; first cousins with first-cousins-in-law[…]; and first-cousins-once-removed with first-cousins-once-removed-in-law[…].2018 November, J. Graham Ruby [et al.], “Estimates of the Heritability of Human Longevity are Substantially Inflated due to Assortative Mating”, in Genetics, volume 210, number 3, Bethesda, Md....
    Synonyms:
    auncle, parsib

Synonyms of pibling

Forms of pibling

pluralpiblings

Origin of pibling

Blend of parent (noun) + sibling (noun).

Words that rhyme with pibling

Questions about pibling

What does pibling mean?
Pibling means used especially as a gender-neutral term: the sibling or sibling-in-law of one's parent; one’s uncle or aunt.
What part of speech is pibling?
Pibling is a noun.
How do you pronounce pibling?
Pibling is pronounced /ˈpɪblɪŋ/ (UK).
What is the plural of pibling?
The plural of pibling is piblings.

Words near pibling in the dictionary

  1. pibcorns
  2. piberaline
  3. pibgorn
  4. pibgorns
  5. Pibit
  6. pibling
  7. piblings
  8. piblockto
  9. piblokto
  10. pibloktoq
  11. pibrentasvir

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